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Lucha Libre Place Card Holders Making personalized Lucha Libre place card holders. From "Craft Lab" episode DCLB-236

Jennifer and Kathy make personalized Lucha Libre place card holders for your Lucha Libre party theme. They glue a luchador (wrestler) figure to make a place card holder that you won't be able to wrestle away from any one.

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Project designed by Kathy Cano Murillo.

Materials:

2" x 3" wood
generic Mexican wrestler toy
18-gauge wire
2 pieces of satin cording or ribbon
paints
2 brushes
beads for the bottom of the wrestling ring
card stock
pack of permanent makers
drill and 1/16" drill bits
scissors
glue gun and glue gun sticks
toothpicks

	Figure A
	Figure B
	Figure C
	Figure D

Lucha Libre Place Card Holders

1. Paint the 2" x 3" wood piece.

2. Drill holes in each corner (figure A).

3. Snip the pointy ends off the toothpicks. And glue them into the holes on each corner (figure B).

4. Cut the ribbon and tie it around each toothpick to create rope (figure C).

5. Decorate the wrestler with paint and glitter glue.

6. Hot-glue wrestler's feet to the ring.

7. Measure where to place holes by eyeballing with name card. Drill a hole next to wrestler.

8. Bend wire and place in hole next to wrestler.

9. Decorate a small place card and place in bent wire (figure D).

Tips

• Make a larger version of the card holder to use as a Lucha Libre centerpiece.
  
• The wire is flexible enough to bend with your hands or use needle-nose pliers.

RESOURCES :

Crafty Chica's Art de la Soul: Glittery Ideas to Liven Up Your Life
by Kathy Cano Murillo
Rayo Books/HarperCollins
Website: www.rayobooks.com

GUESTS :

Kathy Cano Murillo
Crafty Chica Designs
patrickandkathymurillo.stores.yahoo.net/